Creative Awards – 2025 Shortlist
The prolific north creative awards recognise the organisations, teams and individuals putting the north on the map in the creative and digital sectors.
Check out the extraordinary talent showcased in this year’s shortlist below! The big reveal of the 2025 winners is just around the corner at our lively ceremony on June 26 at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. Get ready to celebrate with us!
Advertising Campaign: Large
- Cornerstone & Pyrocalm – Get to the Heart of the Burn
- McCann & Slumberdown – Searching for Sleep
- McCann & Yorkshire Water – Blockages
- News UK & Brown Forman – The Times Whisky Guide: A Perfect Blend
- Workhouse & Interfloor – Defying Gravity with Tredaire
Advertising Campaign: Medium
- BWP & Eldon Square – Fresh, Fearless & Fabulous
- Cravens & British Cycling – Paris 2024
- Leith & Irn Bru – Euros Campaign
- McCann & Leeds Beckett University – Be Unlike Minded
- McCann & Mayhew – Light at the end of the tunnel
- Ponderosa Agency & Russell Hobbs - A Moment of Me-Time
- Sergeant Walnuts & Betfred – Pick Your Nose
Best Collaboration
- GAS™ Music & Leith & Luton Airport Express – 32 Minutes to Go
- GAS™ Music & McCann & East Midlands Railway – Epic Train Travel!
- HUB & La Redoute & Roisin Quinn – La Fleur
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
- McCann & Thomas Cook – Deflatables
- McCann & Yorkshire Water – Hey Girls
- Offended & Totally Stockport – On the Up!
Brand Launch/Activation or Event
- BWP Group & Eldon Square – Fresh, Fearless and Fabulous
- CreativeHutch & Matrx – The Science of Seating
- HUB, La Redoute & Roisin Quinn – ’La Fleur’
- MadeBrave & First Bus – Fare’s Fair
- Mutatio Creative Ltd & Malka Livingstone – Brand Creation
- One Agency Media & ELEMIS – ELEMIS arrives in the heart of the city
Healthcare Campaign
- Bupa Health Clinics – Breaking the Cycle
- Continuous & The Eve Appeal – Whatever gets you going
- GAS™ Music, 21 Grams & Bowel Research UK – Soil Samples
- Leith & Sanofi – Sanofi Meningitis Flag
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
Rebrand
- Applied Digital Marketing & Aquaspersions
- CreativeHutch & Kuschall
- KISS Branding & Fullers Foods – Feeding the Nation, Together
- MONO & That Lifestyle Co.
- Poke & National Football Museum – Football Matters
- Sergeant Walnuts & Joseph Holt – Spin Doctor
Social Impact Campaign
Branding & Visual Identity
- Brandon Medical & Hel – Bringing Innovation to Life
- CreativeHutch & S-Cape
- Fishtank Agency & Magnera
- Influential & The Champs Public Health Collaborative – Smoking Ends Here
- Jam & Perfect Pet – The Pawfect Rebrand
- McCann & Leeds Beckett University – Be Unlike Minded
- Sergeant Walnuts & Manchester Building Society
- Visions Design & Lemonade
- Workhouse & Forbes Solicitors – More Than Law
Digital Design
- Cornerstone Design & Marketing – Cancer Research UK’s Manchester Institute
- Tall – SharkNinja
- Visions Design – Unreasonable Agency
Documentary/Branded Content
- Coolbox & University of Leeds – I’m Still Me
- McCann & VOOM – The Climb
- Prime Video – Molly Mae: Behind It All
- Workerbee – Four Kings
Motion Graphics & Animation
- Flow Creative & Transport for Greater Manchester – Let’s Go Summer!
- Flow Creative & Trussell – Stand for Change
- McGill Productions & Almanak – Launch on Legion
- One Agency & Tatcha – The Dewy Skin Cream
- Workhouse & Interfloor – Defying Gravity with Tredaire
OUT-OF-HOME (OOH) AD
There is no shortlist for the category, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony.
Sound Design & Audio Branding
- 344 Audio & ThunderHawk Studio – Craft & Instinct
- GAS™ Music & 21 Grams – Soil Samples
- McGill Productions & Protein Works – Soundtrack to Your Summer
- This Is Distorted & LNER – Routes
Storytelling
- Cravens & First Bus – First Bus Storybook
- Leith & EFPIA – Chris Roberts Alzheimer’s Story
- McCann & VOOM – The Climb
- Offended & Totally Stockport – On the Up!
- OneTwo & Joint Security and Resilience Centre – CityWatch: Streets of Tomorrow – a live, immersive experience
- Sam Teale Productions & The Sisterhood – Let’s Goa!
- Smoking Gun & Alton Towers Resort – Nemesis Reborn: Back with a vengeance
- The Avenue Agency & Saint Lucia Tourism Authority – Saint Lucia Stories
Creative for Good Award - Large Budget
- Flow Creative & Trussell – Stand for Change
- Leith, Campaign for Better Transport & Fossil Free Football – Carbon Boot
- MadeBrave & Catherine McEwan Foundation – Shooting the Sh*t for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
- McCann & Yorkshire Water – Hey Girls
- npd & Safepoint – Callie: From Concept to Life-Saving Jewellery
- One6th – Two Black Boys in Paradise
- Think & Once Upon a Smile – Brings a Smile
Creative for Good Award - Medium Budget
- Films Not Words & Manchester Women’s Aid & The Pankhurst Trust – Kate’s Story: Transforming the Lives of Women In Refuge
- Fishtank Agency & Stripes – Purpose Over Profit
- Gemma Downes – Music Of The Future
- Gumpo Digital Marketing & The Castle – Fundraiser for Chester Womens Aid
- McCann & Mayhew – Light at the end of the tunnel
- McCann & Thomas Cook – Deflatables
- NDIM – Bringing Neurodiversity to the forefront of media employer consideration
- Sam Teale Productions & The Sisterhood – Let’s Goa!
- ThinkPR & Autism and Neurodiversity North Scotland – The Think Different Dinner
Creative Technology Award
- OneTwo & Joint Security and Resilience Centre – CityWatch: Streets of Tomorrow – a live, immersive experience
- Ponderosa Agency, Tungsten Media & Russell Hobbs – A Moment of Me-Time
- Printworks & ADI – Europe’s Largest Digital Ceiling
- Proof3 – Content personalisation using historical order data
Creative Agency
- Add People
- Cornerstone DM
- MadeBrave
- Mutatio Creative Ltd
- Poke Marketing
- Sun Branding
- Tall
Creative Studio - Sponsored by Sun branding
- Flow Creative
- npd
- OBI Studio
- One Agency Media
Production Company
- Coolbox
- Revolution Productions/Aime Leon Dore/Porsche
- Sam Teale Productions
- Workerbee
Creative Rising Star - sponsored by Dentsu Creative
- Erin Ingram – ThinkPR
- Evie Logue – Peter Tyson
- Jennifer Davies – Interactive Investor
- Jessica Baillie – Coolbox
- Laufey Guðnadóttir – One Agency
- Millie Graham – Tall
This award is decided by a combination of judge’s scores and public vote. Voting is now OPEN!
Creative Trailblazer Award
- Anastasiia Komarnytska – AK-EXPERIENCE
- Audrey Hall – The Safe Space Sisterhood CIC
- Eve Young – SocialChain
- Mark Blundell – BPM Rehab
- Samuel Marriott-Dowding – Marriott Communications
This award is decided by a combination of judge’s scores and public vote. Voting is now OPEN!
2025 Sponsors
Print.com
Colony
Sun Branding
The Eastern Blok
